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Nick Baumann / Mother Jones:
Exclusive: Loughner Friend Explains Alleged Gunman's Grudge Against Giffords — In a MoJo interview, the friend shares a message sent hours before the massacre. — Post Comment — At 2:00 a.m. on Saturday—about eight hours before he allegedly killed six people and wounded 14 …
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The Cholla Jumps:
Jared Loughner is a product of Sheriff Dupnik's office — This is the report that Pima County Sheriff Clarence Dupnik has been dreading since the tragic event on Saturday January 8. — The sheriff has been editorializing and politicizing the event since he took the podium to report on the incident.
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Arizona Republic:
Family of suspect in Giffords shooting blocked access to house — FBI agents working on the Gabrielle Giffords shooing encountered trouble gaining entry to the suspect's family home Monday morning. — Family members of Jared Loughner apparently had put on 4-by-4 double-thick plywood …
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NY Daily News:
Gabrielle Giffords shooting: Frightening, twisted shrine in Arizona killer Jared Lee Loughner's yard — A sinister shrine reveals a chilling occult dimension in the mind of the deranged gunman accused of shooting a member of Congress and 19 others. — Hidden within a camouflage tent behind …
David Frum / FrumForum:
What Palin Needed to Say After Giffords' Shooting — The shooting in Arizona shocked the nation into grief - and presented Sarah Palin with an immediate political problem: her now-notorious gunsight map. — Palin scrubbed the map from her Palin PAC website, and then issued the following statement on her Facebook page:
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Mchapman / CNSNews:
Sheriff Who Suggested Talk Shows May Have Incited Attack Was Asked …
Sheriff Who Suggested Talk Shows May Have Incited Attack Was Asked …
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ABCNEWS:
Accused Tucson Shooter Jared Loughner Says ‘Not a Word’ to Investigators
Accused Tucson Shooter Jared Loughner Says ‘Not a Word’ to Investigators
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Gail Collins / New York Times:
A Right to Bear Glocks?
A Right to Bear Glocks?
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Ben Dimiero / Media Matters for America:
Shameless: Jim Hoft Falls For Fake Facebook Profile In Attempt …
Shameless: Jim Hoft Falls For Fake Facebook Profile In Attempt …
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Michelle Malkin:
The progressive “climate of hate:” An illustrated primer, 2000-2010 — The Tucson massacre ghouls who are now trying to criminalize conservatism have forced our hand. — They need to be reminded. You need to be reminded. — Confront them. Don't be cowed into silence.
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Paul Krugman / New York Times:
Climate of Hate — When you heard the terrible news from Arizona, were you completely surprised? Or were you, at some level, expecting something like this atrocity to happen? — Put me in the latter category. I've had a sick feeling in the pit of my stomach ever since the final stages of the 2008campaign.
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Greg Sargent / The Plum Line:
Official: DHS has not determined any possible ties between Arizona shooter and right wing group — For the last 24 hours, the Web has been alive with speculation that the Arizona shooter has some sort of ties to a right-wing group called American Renaissance.
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Jonathan Chait / The New Republic:
The Arizona Shooting Is Not A Product Of Right-Wing Rage
The Arizona Shooting Is Not A Product Of Right-Wing Rage
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Laylan Copelin / Austin American-Statesman:
DeLay lawyers argue over punishment — UPDATED: Travis County prosecutors argued that Tom DeLay should go to prison today. — “He needs to go to prison, your Honor, and he needs to go today,” said prosecutor Steven Brand. — Brand said the judge could send a message that no one is above the law.
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Juan A. Lozano / Associated Press:
Judge sentences Tom DeLay to 3 years in prison — AUSTIN, Texas — A judge ordered former U.S. House Majority Leader Tom DeLay to serve three years in prison Monday for his role in a scheme to illegally funnel corporate money to Texas candidates in 2002. — The sentence comes after a jury …
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Laylan Copelin / Austin American-Statesman:
DeLay sentenced to 3 years in prison
DeLay sentenced to 3 years in prison
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Jesse McKinley / New York Times:
DeLay Sentenced to 3 Years in Money Laundering Case
The Right Scoop:
Glenn Beck reads email from Sarah Palin — This is probably the closest thing we'll get to hear from Sarah Palin this soon on this weekend's unfortunate events. Glenn Beck reads part of an email from Sarah Palin to him in light of the massive smear job the Left is perpetrating against her.
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Jonathan Martin / The Politico:
Tragedy marks turning point for Palin — With a long list of enemies, a taste for incendiary rhetoric and responsibility for a campaign website graphic that placed gunsight logos on a map of targeted congressional districts, it didn't take long for Sarah Palin to get pulled into the orbit of Saturday's massacre in Tucson.
Keach Hagey / The Politico:
Sarah Palin to Glenn Beck: “I hate violence” — Sarah Palin reached out to Glenn Beck over the weekend, and Beck read some of their email exchange on his radio show this morning. — “Sarah, as you know, peace is always the answer. I know you are felling the same heat, if not much more on this,” Beck wrote.
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Alex Pareene / Salon:
Watering the tree of liberty
Watering the tree of liberty
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The Note:
Post-Tucson Tragedy, Sen. Joe Manchin Discusses Use of Gun Imagery in Campaign Ad — ABC News' Huma Khan reports: Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., one of a number of 2010 candidates who used gun imagery in their campaigns, today explicitly separated himself from those who targeted specific candidates …
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Jordan Fabian / The Hill:
Manchin: ‘I have never targeted an individual’
Manchin: ‘I have never targeted an individual’
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Michael O'Brien / The Hill:
Feds arrest person suspected of threatening Sen. Bennet's Denver office — Authorities responded Monday to a threat against Sen. Michael Bennet's (D-Colo.) Denver office, Bennet's spokesman said. — The FBI and U.S. Capitol Police arrested an individual suspected of making a threat …
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John Ingold / Denver Post:
Man arrested in threats to Bennet staffers
Man arrested in threats to Bennet staffers
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The Politico:
Ashley Turton, ex-Congressional aide, found dead in burning car — A veteran Congressional aide who worked most recently as a lobbyist and was married to White House legislative affairs senior official was found dead in her car Monday behind the couple's Capitol Hill home following a low-speed car crash and subsequent fire.
Ryan Alessi / cn|2 Politics:
Giffords called for toning down ‘rhetoric and partisanship’ in email to Grayson on Friday — Democratic U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords of Arizona said she wanted to promote ways to “tone our rhetoric and partisanship down” in a note she sent Friday to Kentucky Secretary of State Trey Grayson.
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Glenn Greenwald / Salon:
Government-created climate of fear — One of the more eye-opening events for me of 2010 occurred in March, when I first wrote about WikiLeaks and the war the Pentagon was waging on it (as evidenced by its classified 2008 report branding the website an enemy and planning how to destroy it).
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George F. Will / Washington Post:
The charlatans' response to the Tucson tragedy — It would be merciful if, when tragedies such as Tucson's occur, there were a moratorium on sociology. But respites from half-baked explanations, often serving political opportunism, are impossible because of a timeless human craving and a characteristic of many modern minds.
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Frank Newport / Gallup:
Within GOP, Huckabee Most Liked, Palin Best Known — Palin, Romney, and Gingrich trail Huckabee on Gallup's net favorable dimension — PRINCETON, NJ — Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee has the highest net favorable score among Republicans nationwide in a field of potential GOP candidates for 2012 …
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